{"id":444558,"date":"2011-06-20T19:32:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T19:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/20\/soca-offline-after-lulzsec-hit\/"},"modified":"2011-06-20T19:32:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T19:32:49","slug":"soca-offline-after-lulzsec-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/soca-offline-after-lulzsec-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Soca offline after LulzSec &#8216;hit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"115.552354001\"><span><span>20 June 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>15:32 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The UK Serious Organised Crime agency has taken its website offline after it appeared to be a victim of an attack by hacking group Lulz Security.<\/p>\n<p>Soca said it had taken its website offline to limit the impact attack on clients hosted by its service provider.<\/p>\n<p>Soca.gov.uk had been unavailable for much of Monday afternoon, with an intermittent service restored later.<\/p>\n<p>Lulz Security has said it was behind the denial of service attack which had taken the website offline.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, as the agency launched an investigation, LulzSec tweeted: &#8220;Tango down &#8211; in the name of #AntiSec&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The group has hit a number of high-profile websites in recent weeks, including the CIA and US Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Soca appeared to be the victim of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, where large numbers of computers, under malicious control, overload their target with web requests.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement given to BBC News, a Soca spokesman said: &#8220;Soca has chosen to take its website offline to limit the impact of DDOS attack on other clients hosted by our service provider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Soca website is a source of information for the general public\u00a0which is hosted by an external provider. It is not linked to our operational material or the data we hold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>Embarrassment<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, a LulzSec Twitter posting seemed to confirm the nature of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DDoS is of course our least powerful and most abundant ammunition. Government hacking is taking place right now behind the scenes,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The latest attack will come as an embarrassment for Soca, which is tasked with investigating cybercrime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not going to please the boys in blue one bit,&#8221; said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security firm Sophos.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-13848510#story_continues_2\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Lulz Security attacks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>May 7: US X Factor contestant database<\/li>\n<li>May 10: Fox.com user passwords<\/li>\n<li>May 15: Database listing locations of UK cash machines<\/li>\n<li>May 23: Sonymusic Japan website<\/li>\n<li>May 30: US broadcaster PBS. Staff logon information<\/li>\n<li>June 2: Sonypictures.com user information<\/li>\n<li>June 3: Infragard website (FBI affiliated organisation)<\/li>\n<li>June 3: Nintendo.com<\/li>\n<li>June 10: Pron.com pornographic website<\/li>\n<li>June 13: Senate.gov &#8211; website of US Senate<\/li>\n<li>June 13: Bethesda software website. User information<\/li>\n<li>June 14: EVE Online, League of Legends, The Escapist and others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mr Cluley added that it was wrong to confuse DDoS with the kind of hacking that can lead to confidential information being stolen.<\/p>\n<p>However, he warned that LulzSec was capable of both types of attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have in the past broken into websites and stolen e-mail addresses and passwords, so there is a lot of harm can be done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>Big Lulz<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When Lulz Security first appeared in May, the group <a href=\"http:\/\/lulzsecurity.com\/\" title=\"Lulz Security website\">portrayed itself<\/a> as a light-hearted organisation, bent on creating online fun and Lulz (laughs).<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, details of its hacking exploits began to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>The first involved stealing and publishing a database of US X-Factor contestants, including their e-mail addresses and phone numbers.<\/p>\n<p>It followed up with a mixture of website denial of service attacks and intrusions where data was taken and made available on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>On June 19, LulzSec declared that it would begin targeting government systems, calling the campaign Antisec.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including e-mail spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments,&#8221; said a post on the group&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for LulzSec&#8217;s greater focus on government is unclear, although it appears to have recently ended a feud with the more politically-motivated group Anonymous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/technology-13848510\" title=\"Soca offline after LulzSec 'hit'\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soca offline after LulzSec &#8216;hit&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 20 June 2011 Last updated at 15:32 ET The UK Serious Organised Crime agency has taken its website offline after it appeared to be a victim of an attack by hacking group Lulz Security. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":444560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-444558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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